So I accidentally screwed up my GRUB installation and I get "grub rescue>" whenever I boot up.
I had two HDs. HD1 had Windows installed and was my primary boot device. HD2 had a 50GB partition of Ubuntu and the rest was storage. I decided I want Ubuntu as my primary operating system and I want Windows on HD2 so I backed up the storage and reformatted HD2, deleting Ubuntu. But I guess I deleted my GRUB installation because apparently GRUB isn't working now.
I want to install Ubuntu where Windows is now, but I'm not ready to do that yet - I need to get into Windows to back up my stuff.
edit:
I decided to install Ubuntu over Windows on HD1 hoping that would fix it. But when it got to installing grub it gave me an error and froze up. I had to manual restart and the boot menu popped up again. I decided to try to install Ubuntu to HD2 and it worked.
Okay and then the computer restarted and the boot menu popped up again. I decided to try to install it on HD1 to see if I got the same error. The installation worked and I didn't get any errors. So then I clicked reboot and pulled out the USB.
Okay.. so the issue now is my computer is just showing a black screen on startup with a flashing cursor in the top left.
edit2:
Okay now the boot-repair utility looks like it fixed it. Just ran it off of a live session. I'm worried about formatting HD2 now because I don't actually want Ubuntu there.
final edit:
Okay I formatted HD2. Got the same error. Booted live disk and ran boot repair. Problem is fixed.
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